A healthy baby is well worth the waiting.
experts stress the importance of the last weeks of gestation.
New York, June of 2011- PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE. Each week of pregnancy is critical to the health of the newborn. Tuesday, March of Dimes launched a new campaign to raise awareness among the population about the importance of the last weeks of gestation for the development of the baby.
The campaign entitled “Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait” (A healthy baby well worth the wait), and urged mothers to leave to the work of delivery start to their time if your pregnancy has been healthy. Its aim is to undermine the myth that it is safe to schedule the birth before 39 weeks of gestation even without being medically necessary.
Is that babies born with 37 weeks gestation have come to term; However, there is new research that shows that the baby’s brain is almost double its weight in the last few weeks in the womb. In addition, during this period the lungs and other organs acquired an important development. Also, although the overall risk of death is small, it doubled for babies born at 37 weeks of pregnancy compared with those born at 40 weeks, regardless of their race or ethnicity.
“Some women believe wrongly the only baby to upload weight in the last weeks of pregnancy and that hinders more labor and delivery,” said Judith Nolte, Member of the national March of Dimes Board of Trustees and former editor Chief of American Baby Magazine Group, who collaborated with March of Dimes in the formulation of this new campaign of awareness. “when the mother””s in our poll groups knew the importance of the brain and professional development which has place in that period were more than willing to tolerate discomfort as long as your baby reach healthy world”.
Only 25% of women know that the pregnancy to term should last at least 39 weeks, as stipulates it the research published in the December 2009 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
“It is possible that women feel worried, anxious, or simply uncomfortable as we approach the end of the pregnancy; however, unless medical complications, the ideal place for your baby safe and healthy development is the womb,” stated DRA. Eve M. Lackritz, head of the area of maternal health and child of the Division of reproductive health of the Centers for Disease Control and the prevention of the, who summarized the consequences of premature delivery in health. “Labor and childbirth not only term are normal and natural, but the healthier alternative to the mother and the baby”.
Information about the campaign Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait is here
About March of Dimes
March of Dimes is a not-for-profit organization with greater leadership in the field of health during pregnancy and the health of infants. March of Dimes has sections across the country and works to improve the health of babies by the Prevention of defects of birth, premature birth and infant mortality. Marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org contains news and information. If you want free access to data on maternal and child health, national, State, County and city, see PeriStats statistics here.
